News & Features

All the posts every put on our website. Blogs, Podcasts, Careers Support, News and all the good stuff that you wouldn’t want to miss. Only made possible thanks to funding from our amazing partners, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society & Race Against Dementia.

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Catch-up – Telehealth to enable access to interventions for people with dementia by Anna Volkmer

29/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Anna Volkmer explores the evidence for use of Telehealth & reports on the perceived value of delivering speech and language therapy interventions remotely

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E-Worklife Online Resources

28/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

E-WORKLIFE was created by experts in digital distraction and work-life balance to provide you with evidence-based strategies to support remote working.

Lifestyle

Finding motivation in the lighter side of science

28/04/2020

Nature Careers Blog

Atma Ivancevic shares what keeps her passionate about science when academic work gets tough, and while working from home – in this post from Nature Careers

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Podcast – Maintaining your clinical identity & skills as an academic

27/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Aida Gonzalez, Dr Daniel Jimenez & Julieta Camino discuss how they maintain their clinical skills and identify, while working in academia.

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Profile – Dr Lillian Hung

25/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

Clinical Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia. Researching use of technology to improve the lives and care of people living with dementia.

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Scottish Dementia Research Consortium annual report

23/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

The Scottish Dementia Research Consortium has published its annual report celebrating Scotland’s dementia and brain health research, across all disciplines

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Catch-up – Dementia Friendly EDs by Dr Courtney Genge

22/04/2020

Dementia Researcher

Dr Courtney Genge discusses her Doctoral work on improving the quality and safety of care in emergency departments for people living with dementia.

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Blog – Ways to avoid rubbish video calls

22/04/2020

Adam Smith

Adam Smith has turned to blog writing to try to share some good general rules for video calls, he assures us this wasn’t aimed at anyone specific.

Science

Aβ in Lewy Body Disease: 2 Diseases at Once?

22/04/2020

Alz Forum

Many people with Lewy body diseases (LBDs) ultimately develop dementia, and many have Aβ plaques & tau. Do they have two diseases at the same time?

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Blog – Covid & dementia, impacts from research to care

21/04/2020

Dr Clarissa Giebel

Clarissa Giebel shares details of how her covid-19 dementia research studies have been conceived, funded, approved and started recruiting in under two weeks.,